Spain plans menstrual leave in new law for those with severe pain

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-61429022

by melenaboija • 4 years ago

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EddieDante• 4 years ago

I'm OK with this. I won't want to be stuck working with women who are miserable because of menstrual pain. Even if they don't lash out at others, knowing that they're still on the job despite being in pain doesn't exactly do wonders for my morale. Seeing coworkers mistreated doesn't motivate me to do my best work. It only serves to confirm my suspicion that not only does my employer not give a shit about women, but probably doesn't give a fuck about me either.

MyHypatia• 4 years ago

I think branding this as menstrual leave is unfortunate. We don't brand leave due to back pain as "back pain leave" or leave due to migraines as "migraine leave". It's just medical leave due to some type of pain. They are just including severe menstrual pain as a type of pain that you can get leave for like back pain, migraine pain, etc. These are all valid reasons take medical leave. From reading the article it sounds like severe menstrual pain will be put in the same category as migraine pain, back pain, other source of pain that regularly occur for different people.

My initial reaction before reading the article was, "It's dumb to create a unique category of leave for this type of pain when there are many types of pain people may need to take leave for". But it sounds like currently people can take leave for other types of pain, but conspicuously cannot take leave for this type of pain.

Spain plans menstrual leave in new law for those with severe pain

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